Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev, the jaunty improviser enthroned as solemn Marxist prophet, pointing out the promise of history's biggest pie in the sky. It was an occasion to bring back memories of the first Congress of Victors-the 17th, in 1934, when the party sang the praises of Secretary-General Stalin (who had similarly licked but not yet liquidated his rivals), and when young Moscow Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev first won election to the party's holy of holies, the Central Committee...
...tribune of victory the energetic pragmatist, who likes to voice his cornfield contempt for theoreticians, now demanded to be regarded as the first of living Communist theorists. Soviet speakers had lately taken to eulogizing their new Vozhd, or supreme chief, as they did Stalin, in personality-cult terms ("Initiator and soul of our glorious work...
...London's Sunday Express, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 84, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive...
Zhivago's tragedy is somewhat confused by Pasternak's limitations as a novelist. This is his first novel. He is a poet, and during the Stalin era of literary frigidity, he devoted himself to Russian translations of Shakespeare. As a poet, he has been schooled to write from a single point of view, a single consciousness ranging on a variety of subjects or focusing on one. Most poetry is characterized by this synthesis of artist and the created personality. For poetry, it is basic; for the novel, it can be disastrous. The fusion of Zhiva-go and Pasternak admits...
Mirrored in the watchful faces of the gathering Communist clan was the realization that the 21st Party Congress could well prove as momentous as the 20th Congress three years ago. at which Khrushchev tearfully and historically denounced Stalin. For weeks past, ominous hints have been gathering that Khrushchev might use the occasion to deal a final blow to his disgraced foes -the "antiparty group" composed of Malenkov, Bulganin. Molotov, Shepilov and Kaganovich. In the usual Communist technique, a crime has to be found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem...